Sun Sounds of Arizona is a

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serving the state of

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. It is an outreach service of

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, with additional offices in

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, Flagstaff and Yuma. Sun Sounds was founded in 1979 to allow visually impaired people in

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and the

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access to print media. It expanded to Tucson and southern Arizona in 1979, adding northern Arizona in 1995 and southwestern Arizona in 2011. It was named as one of George H. W. Bush's "

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" in 1992. Sun Sounds can be heard on specially configured radios provided to its members, as well as on a telephone access system and via

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. Sun Sounds' central and southern Arizona feeds can be streamed worldwide on the Internet, while the southwestern Arizona feed is available on

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's Yuma system. The central Arizona feed can also be heard on sister station

KBAQ KBAQ (89.5 FM, "K Bach") is a Phoenix metro area FM radio station that plays classical music twenty-four hours per day. It is co-owned by the Maricopa County Community College District and Arizona State University. A member of National Publ ...

's third HD channel.

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